'Quick, play Hey Jude': Paul McCartney's recurring nightmare

He's one of the most famous people on the planet and has been performing on stage for almost six decades. But at 75, Paul McCartney still has anxiety dreams about getting up in front of a crowd.

"Ever since I started performing there's like a recurring dream which is, and I still have it to this day, which is you're in a stadium and you're playing with The Beatles or with a band and people start leaving and it's like, 'OK, what are we doing wrong?'" he said.

"And we're trying to pull out the big one like, 'Quick, play Hey Jude, quick!' And they're still leaving.

"'Quick, Long Tall Sally!' And they're just drifting away and you wake up in a cold sweat."

The former Beatle sat down with 7.30 at the start of his Australian tour in Perth.Rediscovering the old hits